02202cam a2200193 4500 2117127 TxAuBib 20070907120000.0 130301|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Start-to-Finish Library: Black Beauty w/Book & 2 CD's / Software, Book and Audio tape. IL : Don Johnston. Start to Finish - Gold ; 0 Reading more makes better readers; however, when you are referring to struggling readers, putting this theory into practice is challenging because struggling readers have experienced a never-ending cycle of failure and lack the motivation to keep trying to read. Start-to-Finish breaks that failure cycle through its unique combination of considerate text and considerate delivery that: help students focus their energy on the meaning of the text instead of struggling with the mechanics of reading create opportunities for word recognition and decoding practice with manageable vocabulary build fluency and subsequently increase comprehension build motivation because students experience a guaranteed successful reading experience every time increase reading volume to build avid readers. Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty illustrates the many ways horses were mistreated in nineteenth century England. Handsome and well-bred, Black Beauty's first position is pulling a carriage at a fancy estate. This means having to wear a bearing rein, a fashionable contraption that holds the horses’ heads up so unnaturally high that many horses are only good for a few years of work before their backs give out. Black Beauty is ultimately ruined by a drunk driver, which condemns Beauty to forms of work farther and farther below his breeding. Black Beauty, a mild and humble narrator, quietly condemns all forms of animal cruelty in his elegant recounting of his adventures. But this story is also a lesson in the simple value of kindness, for Black Beauty’s journey ends in peace. Guided Reading Level: L. 20080305. Start to Finish - Gold ; 0 http://www.donjohnston.com/